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IBM Guardium Data Protection is a modern, zero-trust data security platform that provides comprehensive protection for sensitive data - no matter where it resides. It supports structured and unstructured data across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, including AWS, DBaaS, mainframes, and file systems.
Overview
IBM Guardium Data Protection reduces the time data security analysts spend on compliance and auditing tasks by 70%, dramatically simplifying compliance. Guardium Data Protection reduces data security analysts workload by 25%, leading to significant operational cost savings. Guardium Data Protection is successfully deployed at scale, ensuring consistent, reliable performance even in expansive data environments.
How does Guardium Data Protection work?
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Data Activity Monitoring: Real-time detection and security policy violations with templates available and Policy Analyzer
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Discover & Classification: Discover where data is stored and decide if it requires monitoring and protection or if the data risk landscape can be reduced
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Vulnerability Assessment: Schedule CVE, CIS, STIG, and custom VA tests on a regular basis to be sure servers are hardened against malicious intruders
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Compliance Automation: Guided walkthrough for regulation control coverage with templates for policies and reports, detailed audit reports to streamline workflow, seamless integration with SIEM tools
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Advanced Analytics: Real-time detection of security incidents such as database ransomware attacks, SQL injection, non-encrypted access to sensitive data, and more
Reduce risk with real-time visibility and actionable intelligence: This solution offers advanced analytical tool with a combination of rule-based policies and symptom analysis to detect patterns and behaviors that map to known industry attack vectors, thereby identifying internal and external threats.
Enforce granular access control down to the data level: IBM Guardium Data Protection empowers you to protect your data both where users, applications and services consume it and at the infrastructure level, where data is stored in databases, data warehouse, DBaaS sources and more.
Minimize the total cost of ownership and performance impact: Centralized management of operations, policies and auditing further supports scalability by simplifying the aggression and normalization of multiple data sources for enterprise reporting.
IBM Guardium Data Protection meets that need by showing you where critical data is stored, how its being accessed and providing recommendations for how best to protect it - all while helping you meet compliance and privacy requirements in the process.
Highlights
- Real-time gradular monitoring and control - enforce precise policies with deep visibility
- Flexible coverage for most database environment - agent-based, agentless or stream-based options, across on-prem and cloud platforms
- Enterprise-grade scale; proven in production environments with hundreds to tens of thousands of databases
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
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Guardium Data Protection - 5 Data Sources (1500 Resource Units) | Guardium Data Protection - 5 Data Sources | $36,000.00 |
Guardium Vulnerability Assessment - 5 Data Sources (200 resource Units) | Guardium Vulnerability Assessment - 5 Data Sources | $4,800.00 |
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Computer Software
IBM Guardian Data Review
Reviewed on Sep 11, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The most helpful feature of this platform is the monitor and threat detection in the system.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main thing that I don't like is the cost and the difficulty in learning it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It hells us monitor database and respond to threats quickly.
Khushnam C.
The powerful fortress for your data
Reviewed on Sep 11, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I would say it's an powerful platform for data security, specially for monitoring and threat detection this platform gives you full control over your data
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not a easiest tool if you want for something light because it's little complex with setup you need to have a good knowledge or have a skilled person to handle it. But for enterprises with serious data security requirements this is the best platform
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a user the main issue ibm solved for me is getting me proper visibility and control of my data. Before I was not aware of where the sensitive data is stored or was it fully compliant with regulations.
Ashutosh P.
Strong Data Security and Compliance Tool
Reviewed on Sep 11, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
IBM Guardium provides excellent visibility and monitoring capabilities for sensitive data across databases. It also plays vital role in ensuring compliance regulations like GDPR,HIPAA, and PCI-DSS. The real time alerts and comprehensive audit logs makes it easier to prevent unauthorised access. Its ability to connect with multiple data sources makes it flexible adds strong value for enterprises.
What do you dislike about the product?
The user interface can feel a little daunting to first time users and the initial setup requires significant time and expertise. Some reports take longer to generate and performance can slow down in larger infrastructures.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM Guardium helps organizations address compliance challenges by tracking and auditing sensitive data activity.
It minimizes exposure to potential breaches by detecting unusual activity in real time and allows clients to meet regulatory requirements more effectively. From a consulting perspective,it enables me to provide clients with actionable insights into their data security posture and recommend improvements backed by accurate reporting.
It minimizes exposure to potential breaches by detecting unusual activity in real time and allows clients to meet regulatory requirements more effectively. From a consulting perspective,it enables me to provide clients with actionable insights into their data security posture and recommend improvements backed by accurate reporting.
Mandeep S.
IBM Guardium Data Protection Review
Reviewed on Sep 10, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The first thing is monitor and protect the sensitive data, and the main thing is versatile work on many database and cloud system at one place so it is easy for user to connect different cloud, early detect the risk is also the point I like about IBM guardian
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the system can be very complex for new users or for those who don’t work with it regularly. They may forget how it works, so it requires skilled or experienced staff. Cost can also be a concern for smaller companies, and if the system is not properly tuned by skilled users, it can slow down performance.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It addresses the security concerns of sensitive data in databases, and this benefiting me to protecting it from threats and unwanted risks on my sensitive data
Computer Software
IBM Guardium Data Protection Review
Reviewed on Sep 10, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The threat response system of this platform is the best what I like about it. Apart from it the ease it provide with managing different guidlines like GDPR, HIPAA, etc is very helpful for me personally.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main problem I face with this platform is the less availablity of resources, although the company is quick to respond in case for any reported issue. Thus increasing the the learning curve.Also the database gets full quickly if not monitored, hence requiring a almost everyday monitoring.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps me in managing my organization databases, and cloud platform, keeping them secure and monitoring them.The main use case for me is the threat response and detection system.